Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position. No internet, no blogs, no books [.] 2 weeks in they had outsourced my job, which lead to an awkward conversation. Thanks Steve, Great insight.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in. I like the get fit and lean in. Suppose you trace the history of Netflix, which we’ve invested in since 1999 and are still one of the largest shareholders.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. How did Akamai do it? . .

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Up and Running

MARCH 18, 2013

And then, when Scobleizer brought up the tricky sponsorship question, I simply passed the baton to Chris Courtney who clonked them over the head with some lean methodology, just as he did earlier that day. I answer these same exact same publishing questions every day like it’s 1999. Gotta know when to pass the pill. No problem.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Thanks to the internet, we have access to dozens of passive income ideas. Musk kick-started his rise to entrepreneurial fame when he sold his digital media company, Zip2 to Compaq for $307 million back in 1999. The internet makes information so easily accessible, we can learn anything we want now. He was only 27 at this point!

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Today’s economy is substantially more freelance for one, but as it pertains to technology and innovative entrepreneurship, we find ourselves in an era that is bringing tech to traditional industries that have yet to have fully embraced what the internet has caused: data, connectivity, globalization, scalability, and efficiency. Imagine that.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. Governor Jerry Brown, State of the State speech, January 2014. The first page results of a search for “tech 2.0

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Consider that NYT.com readers are on average 44 years old, have an average income of just under $75,000, over 50% are college educated, and over 25% work in some professional or managerial position – it makes sense that awe or anger inducing, opinionated articles perform the best on the left-leaning news site. GetResponse (est.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy.

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